4/28/2010 @ 6:00PM

In Pictures: Women At The Top

Irene B. Rosenfeld

Kraft Foods

One-year total compensation: $16.7 million

Rosenfeld, 56, ranks as the highest-paid female chief executive on our list. The past year, her fourth as CEO, landed Rosenfeld in the spotlight when she launched a hostile takeover of British candy maker Cadbury. The $19 billion deal angered U.K. lawmakers and drew the ire of Warren Buffett, whose Berkshire Hathaway is Kraft’s largest investor. Nonplussed, Rosenfeld is moving forward and plans to use Cadbury’s distribution network in India and Mexico to sell more Kraft products.